Why Wildlife Trafficking Is a Human Problem of Global Concern Huffington Post World leaders are gathered again in New York for the annual session of the United Nations General Assembly to discuss some of the greatest crises challenging the global community today. They have already taken up the issues of climate change, the terror threat posed by the Islamic State, and the dev...
Carbon reduction goal 'ambitious': Julie Bishop Canberra Times The future: Children took part in the rally against climate change in New York. Photo: Reuters | New York: Australia has restated its commitment to reduce its carbon emissions by 5 per cent below 2000 levels by 2020, at a meeting of the top 17 economies in New York hosted by United States Secretary ...
UPDATE 1-U.S. FERC approves Dominion's Cove Point LNG export facility Reuters (Adds details of project, background on Cove Point) | WASHINGTON, Sept 29 (Reuters) - U.S. federal regulators on Monday approved construction of Dominion Resources Inc's liquefied natural gas export project in Cove Point, Maryland. | Cove Point is th...
World wildlife 'halved in 40 years' Belfast Telegraph Wildlife populations around the world have more than halved in just four decades in the face of unsustainable human consumption, a report has warned. | Mammals, birds, reptiles, amphibians and fish have declined on average by 52% from 1970 to 2010, a...
Half of world's animals have disappeared since 1970 The Daily Telegraph Related Articles | Most vulnerable: British wildlife in peril 30 Sep 2014 | African elephants have the best smell in the animal kingdom 23 Jul 2014 | Bats get 'the bends' from wind turbines 23 Jul 2014 | Mother giraffe protects calf from lions in Ken...
Turn entrepreneurs, Naidu urges students The Hindu Students should look at becoming entrepreneurs rather than chasing jobs in big companies, Chief Minister N Chandrababu Naidu said urging them to aim at becoming another Bill Gates. | Interacting with students after inaugurating Sunrise Startups Incub...
Irrigators must let river flow Otago Daily Times The Lindis River should remain a functioning ecosystem, Niall Watson insists. | Tarras farmers claim they will fail without continued supply of irrigation water from the over-allocated Lindis River (ODT, 20.9.14), yet they have known for 23 years the...
Joy: Water proposal won't stop pollution Stuff Canterbury's clean water proposals are being described as "self-serving" and will lead to continued pollution of rivers. | So says Massey University's senior lecturer of environmental science/ecology Dr Mike Joy. | "The industry has all the resources...
Passport stuck inside the Blackberry square The Australian IS the square-shaped BlackBerry Passport a masterstroke by an ailing company? Or is it a square peg in the round hole of modern technology? | You’ve got to feel sympathy for BlackBerry. In 2009-10, the then Research in Motion raked in $US...
Carbon Pollution And Your Seafood Dinner Huffington Post It's not much of an exaggeration to say that water is life; our lives are necessarily linked to water's ebb and flow, the water cycle. As I type this, rain is pounding down outside...
The Peninsula chapter of the Virginia Master Naturalists opens new member registration Daily Press The Peninsula chapter of the Virginia Master Naturalist has opened registration for 20 spots in their new member training. Training starts in February at the Denbigh Community Center, and classes and fieldtrips will focus largely on the Peninsula's m...
Earth lost 50% of its wildlife in the past 40 years, says WWF The Guardian Species across land, rivers and seas decimated as humans kill for food in unsustainable numbers and destroy habitats | See picture gallery of wild animals facing decline | Rubbish dumped on the tundra outside llulissat in Greenland stand in stark con...
More than 30 believed dead at Japanese volcano The Columbus Dispatch TOKYO -- Rescue workers have found 30 or more people unconscious and believed to be dead near the peak of an erupting volcano in central Japan, local government and police said. | Nagano prefecture posted on its website that about 30 people had heart and lung failure, the customary way for Japanese authorities to describe a body until police doctor...
>News briefs from around Kentucky at 1:58 a.m. EDT Seattle Post Tourism, agriculture seen as key in Appalachia | SLADE, Ky. (AP) — Sitting at a state resort in the mountains of eastern Kentucky, officials highlighted the need for more money to market the area to tourists as a way to restart the community's economy in the wake of thousands of job losses from the declining coal industry. | The recommendation is...
